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The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$266k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$468kFood & Nutrition$340kArts & Culture$133kHousing & Shelter$74kHuman Services$62kEducation$33kEnvironment$28kCivil Rights$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte$35,000
Alameda County Food Bank$30,000
Planned Parenthood - Prince Georges$25,000
Capital Area Food Bank$15,000
Breast Cancer Action$11,000
Alameda County Meals on Wheels$10,000
ALIVE$10,000
Tampa Bay Watch$8,000
Alameda Point Collaborative$8,000
House of Ruth$7,000
FINCA - Fighting Poverty with Finan$6,000
MusiCorp Renovation in Music Educat$5,000
Feeding America$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Women's Cancer Resource Center$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%My New Red Shoes: $500 → 7%House of Ruth: $7k → 14%ALIVE: $10k → 9%Bikes for the World: $2k → 8%My New Red Shoes: $500 → 7%Hands on Hartford Inc: $10k → 11%Hands on Hartford Inc: $8k → 11%Gifts of Love: $1k → 11%Gifts of Love: $1k → 11%Alameda Point Collaborative: $8k → 10%Alameda Point Collaborative: $8k → 10%Tri-City Volunteers: $4k → 10%Tri-City Volunteers: $4k → 10%Tri-City Volunteers: $4k → 10%Tri-City Volunteers: $4k → 10%Tri-City Volunteers: $3k → 10%Tri-City Volunteers: $3k → 10%Tri-City Volunteers: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$945k · 34 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
12

Total granted

$945k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-29%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $184k · revenue +118%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $73k · revenue +30%
  • FI
    FOODSHARE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $58k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • CM
    Charlotte Maxwell Clinic
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -40%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +32%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +80%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alameda Emergency Food Dba Alameda Food Bank

Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
6
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
9
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
10
Asian Health Services

Asian Health Services (AHS) provides a continuum of medical care, mental health care, dental care and other healthcare services for all, including health education; perinatal services; behavioral health; family and youth services;…

Health
11
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
12
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
26/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Womens Cancer Resource Center: $195,000 · OtherWomens Cancer Resource CenterALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $184,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKFOODSHARE INC: $58,000 · OtherFOODSHARE INCCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONMiddlebury College Museum Work: $35,000 · OtherMILLS COLLEGE: $30,000 · Other+32 more: $215,500 · Other+32 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $73,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $35,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…George Mark Childrens Fund: $26,000 · HealthGeorge Mark Chil…ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $21,000 · HealthALAMEDA HEALTH S…CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHIL…+3 more: $8,000 · HealthNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $18,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE PLACE: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHANDS ON HARTFORD INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE: $16,000 · Human ServicesALIVE Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $7,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionPeninsula Food Runners Inc: $12,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $5,000 · Food & NutritionEARTHJUSTICE: $18,000 · EnvironmentTAMPA BAY WATCH INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE: $2,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $16,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $4,000 · Civil Rights
Other$767,500Health$178,000Arts & Culture$81,000Human Services$80,500Food & Nutrition$42,000Environment$28,000Civil Rights$26,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWomens Cancer Resource Center: $195,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $184,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $73,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $58,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCharlotte Maxwell Clinic: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON HARTFORD INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeninsula Food Runners Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION: $11,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALIVE Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCity Slicker Farms: $9,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA BAY WATCH INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD RUNNERS: $4,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE PLACE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEWARK PUBLIC RADIO INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBikes for the World Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimers Services of the East Bay: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFTS OF LOVE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Sylvan C Coleman …East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…The James Irvine Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…McNabb FoundationThe California Wellne…ImpactassetsincJewish Community Fede…The William G Irwin C…Walter and Elise Haas…
The Sylvan C Coleman FoundationCA43.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sylvan C Coleman Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Newark Public Radio Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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